Critics and reviewers keep proclaiming that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a “dangerous” and “bold” movie because it dares to take on the subject of income inequality in America, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Much to my surprise, some of the early Communiqué stories I wrote were subsequently reprinted in CU President Bruce Benson’s weekly newsletters. But they were printed without my byline, as if they were the product of spontaneous generation.

Any discussion should be guided by facts. Unfortunately, Dave Anderson’s recent opinion piece [“Limit corporate welfare,” commentary, Oct. 24] fails to meet that standard and misrepresents both the policy work of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the fiscal realities facing state governments.

Oh, Mr. Flanders! I can’t figure out whether you’re ringing your hands in distress and bewilderment or in delight at being able, yet again, to take pot shots at the environment. Yes, I wrote environment. I did not mean “environmentalists.”

The floods of just a few short weeks ago have shown that the oil and gas industry is extraordinarily prepared, responsive in real time and focused on assisting our neighbors in this great state to rebuild.